Two days later, at 4:50 p.m., a group of coup leaders arrived in Foros in the Crimea, where Gorbachev was vacationing, to tell him he had a choice—either to resign or to support the self-appointed Committee for Emergency. “Yeltsin’s been arrested. He’ll be arrested,” one of the group told Gorbachev. “Mikhail Sergeevich, we demand nothing from you. You’ll be here. We’ll do all the dirty work for you.” Gorbachev told them to get out.30 Soon his lines of communication, including those by satellite, went dead.
